Mordecai on Evangelism (Esther 4:13-14, Part II)

“Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, ‘Do not think to yourself that in the king’s palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?’” (Esther 4:13-14).

[In my conviction, this is especially addressed to myself.]
Do not think to yourself that as an introvert (or otherwise "incapable" evangelist) you will escape any more than an extrovert (or otherwise so-called "capable evangelist") the responsibility for the stewardship of the communication abilities you do have to proclaim the Good News. For if you keep silent at opportune times, the Gospel will come through the mouths of others (see footnote 1) and the elect will be saved (2), but you will forfeit all the joy of sharing God's good pleasure (3). And who knows whether the Great Circumstance of Life has not ordained every "coincidental" meeting of a new person for such a purpose as this?

(1) "How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, 'How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!'" (Romans 10:14-15).

(2) "For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified" (Romans 8:29-30). "All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day... No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. It is written in the Prophets, 'And they will all be taught by God.' Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me" (John 6:37-39,44-45). "And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice... My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand" (John 10:16,29).

(3) "it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom" (Luke 12:32; cf. Isaiah 53:11; Hebrews 12:2). "Enter into the joy of your master" (Matthew 25:21).